CAPF (AC) 2013 (Paper-1) (Question 51-100)

Kumbum Monastery, also known as Ta'er Monastery, is situated in the Lusar Town, 25 kilometres southwest of Xining, Qinghai Province, China. The Monastery is said to be built as early as 1379, and the site is regarded as one of the six famous monasteries of the Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism.

Also, Kumbum Monastery is known to be the representative and a spectacular repository of Tibetan arts and cultural relics.

Situated on the way to Badrinath, Karnaprayag is the site of the confluence of the two holy rivers, namely, Alaknanda and Pindar. The location is believed to be the place where Karna of the Mahabharata worshipped the Sun God for many years to attain the impregnable shield and to be a formidable warrior on the battlefield.

The town of Karnaprayag is also known as 'The City of Karna of Mahabharata'. Karnaprayag is one of the Panch Prayag or the 'five confluences' of river Alaknanda.

The Gobi Desert is a vast, arid region in northern China and southern Mongolia in a continent of Asia.

The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savannah covering Botswana, and parts of Namibia and South Africa in the Africa continent.

The Mojave Desert in the rain shadow of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the Southwestern United States in the North America continent.

Atacama Desert is a desert plateau in South America covering land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes Mountains situated in the continent of South America.

The Labrador Current is a cold current in the North Atlantic Ocean that flows from the Arctic Ocean south along the coast of Labrador and passes around Newfoundland meets The Florida Current, the part of the Gulf Stream flowing off Florida. The clash between the cold and warm waters creates very rough waters. Many boat/ship wrecks happen where the two currents meet.

The Wallace Line is an imaginary boundary that is between Australia and the Asian islands. This boundary shows the point where there is a distinction in species on side of the line. To the west of the line, all of the species are similar or derived from species that are found on the Asian mainland. To the east of the line, there are species that of Australian descent.

The people who live within the tropical forests as hunters and gatherers sustain as part-time small-scale farmers supplemented by large trading in high-value tropical forests crops. The tropical forest receives more sunlight and more rainfall due to the earth's geography and in all experience all seasons and weather round the year.
Equatorial Rainforest Climate- Distribution

• Equatorial Rainforest Climate is distributed in and around the equator in both hemispheres, as its name suggests.
• The equatorial zone lies between 0 and 10 degrees latitude on either side of the equator.
• It runs from Sumatra to New Guinea in Asia, spanning the Amazon lowlands in South America, the Congo basin in Africa, and the East Indies.
• This region, in other words, covers the continents of South America, Africa, and Asia.
• Equatorial Rainforest Climate is also called the tropical rainforest climate or equatorial climate.

Mahatma Gandhi was opposed to separate electorates for the Dalits because he saw untouchability as an social issue and not political issue.

Separate electorates for the Muslims were the cause of communal disputes during elections and in the legislative councils, as the voters and the candidates being members of a single community, the contestants in the elections did not have to get votes from other.communities.

Gandhi was, therefore, convinced that separate electorates for 'Dalits' would further help the British to "divide and rule," and balkanise India.

Among the reasons given, the theory that the Aryans invaded and destroyed the Harappan culture is the weakest. There are no archaeological evidences and only a few references in the Rig Veda which historian has constructed to mean that the Aryans had attacked the Harappan cities and culture. The Harappan Civilization was an urban civilization while the Aryans set up a rural culture.

Panini's Astadhyayi is a Sanskrit Treatise on grammar written in 6th to 5th century B.C. by the Indian grammarian Panini. This work set the linguistic standards for classical Sanskrit. It sums up in 4000 sutras the science of phonetics and grammar that had evolved in the Vedic religion. Panini divided his work into eight chapters, each of which is further divided into quarter chapters.

Dhauli is located on the banks of the river Daya, 8 km south of Bhubaneswar in Odisha, India. Dhauli hill is presumed to be the area where the Kalinga War was fought. After annexation of Kalinga, Ashoka erected a rock edited, which is known as Dhauli major rock edict.

The Major Rock Edicts and Major Pillar Edicts are essentially moral and political in nature: they never mention the Buddha or explicit Buddhist teachings, but are preoccupied with order, proper behaviour and non violence under the general concept of 'Dharma', and they also focus on the administration of the state and positive relations with foreign countries as far as the Hellenistic Mediterranean.